Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott was born in Saint Lucia, the West Indies, in 1930, and began writing poetry at the age of 18. He graduated from the University of the West Indies, and in 1957 was awarded a fellowship by the Rockefeller Foundation to study theater. He is the founder of the Trinidad Theater Workshop, and his plays have been produced throughout the U.S.

His play Dream on Monkey Mountain won the Obie Award for distinguished foreign play of 1971. He also received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature, a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award, a Royal Society of Literature Award, and, in 1988, the Queen's Medal for Poetry.

Walcott's poetry: “Tiepolo's Hound” (2000), “The Bounty” (1997), “Omeros” (1990), “The Arkansas Testament” (1987), “Collected Poems: 1948-1984” (1986), “Midsummer” (1986), “The Fortunate Traveller” (1981), “The Star-Apple Kingdom” (1979), “Sea Grapes” (1976), “Another Life” (1973), “The Gulf” (1970), “The Castaway” (1965) and “In a Green Night” (1962).